A tour de France in search of regional languages Can minority languages and regional dialects like Corsican and Flemish survive in a country which has just one official language? Languages • 05 Nov 20
Is the lockdown a good time to brush up on your Irish? This may be the perfect opportunity for those who wish to re-engage with Irish or any other language Languages • 28 Oct 20
How your bilingual baby's brain handles two languages Babies are wired to acquire more than one language and tend to do so without too much bother Children • 7 hrs
Handwriting or type: what's the future of learning Chinese? Learning Chinese means studying the sound, shape and meaning of each character Chinese • 06 Jan 20
Will Brexit change Ireland's dependancy on the English language? After Brexit, Ireland will be the only member state where English is spoken as its first language which has both advantages and challenges Brexit • 11 Mar 19
Did a medieval Irish manuscript uncover a new word of Old Dutch? An ancient manuscript on the origins of the Irish language shows the influence of other nations on the words we used History • 23 Jan 19
How hard is it to learn Chinese? There is an increasing interest in learning Chinese but it's a language which requires a lot of time to master Chinese • 26 Oct 18
How students can make the best of a year abroad Research on students' year abroad experiences show huge benefits to studying abroad, but it requires preparation and realistic goals A year abroad • 26 Oct 18
Could do better: Ireland's poor marks for foreign languages The lack of foreign language capacity in Ireland brings many personal, social and economic drawbacks Languages • 28 Aug 18
The Catalan language is key to Catalonia's political crisis Opinion: Spain's failure to recognise the multilingual reality of the country has contributed to the current political and constitutional crisis in Catalonia Languages • 27 Nov 17
Why Donald Trump's words give translators so much trouble Beyond issues of lexis and grammar, there is another reason why translators can find it so difficult to work with Trumpslation: they often do not ... Lost in translation • 25 Sep 17